I've got a thin-provisioned vmdk that I'd like to burn to a dvd so I can send it through the mail (how quaint). When I scp the image from the ESXi host to my workstation, it blows up to full size. I ...

Within virtualization circles, there is debate about whether or not to use thin provisioning on the hypervisor. Thin provisioning is available on all major hypervisors, including VMware's vSphere 4.

I am going to be performing a P2V of a 2008 box to a VMDK file. The server has about 700GB total, but only about 100GB are being utilized. If I P2V this and import it into vSphere will it have to be ...